Chetushka

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Russian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,417 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Четушка]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ru|Четушка}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

A chetushka (Russian: четушка) is an obselete Russian unit of liquid volume equal to 246 mL. The chetushka is named after the pair of charok that it held.

With the introduction of the metric system, the word chetushka lost its original meaning and evolved into the chekushka (a term for a small bottle of vodka); this shift was influenced by the name of Dmitry Afanasyevich Chekushkin, a 20th-century Saint Petersburg merchant who sold alcohol-based extracts. In 1918, the Bolsheviks issued a decree abolishing colloquial names for units of measurement; consequently, the term chekushka—referring to a volume of one-quarter of a liter—became the established colloquial name, replacing the chetushka.

References

This standards- or measurement-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.

• v
• t
• e